Rich Sommer Quotes

A good performance from me - no matter what kind of film it is, or who I'm acting with - will help me get better offers.

I had five years in the business in Canada, and then I came down to the States in February of 2010. I had a good pilot season. I started getting guest star work. I started to get bigger stuff.

I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.

I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.

When I started as an actor, I kind of started with a couple features. I've been waiting for the opening.

For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'

I'm tryin' to get some acting credibility, get some other work.

When you're starting out, every line in a show or a commercial is like a huge success.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.

I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.

My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.

I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.

I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.

I recommend doing some sort of acting class, something that can eventually get you in front of an agent or a manager, and practice is very important.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.

When I was little, my mom was an actress, and she still is now, and she'd go on commercial auditions, and if they needed a mom and a son, she'd take me along, and that's how I got started.

I haven't been in a position to have the luxury to pick roles for most of my career, so I'm not practiced in that. Usually, when you want to be an actor, you take whatever comes along. If there's an audition, you go for it. If you get the job, you do it - just to get experience, to act, to meet people.

When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for 'Harry Potter.' That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the 'Harry Potter' commercial which was really cool, but I didn't play Harry Potter.

I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.